David Barach Piano Studio

Nice to be back to the regular fall lesson schedule and see all the students who were on vacation 😊. I also love this part of the year, where the kids in the studio start to prepare for their annual Halloween recital! 🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻

Some thoughts on developing creativity in the studio: one of my favorite parts of teaching

Piano as Creative Outlet: Why It May Not Happen and How it Can One of the things students often want, and parents almost always want for their children, is for piano to become developed as a creative outlet. What "creative outlet" means isn't always well-defined, but I like how piano pedagogue Forrest Kinney split it into the four arts of improvisation, arrangi...

Virtual teaching options

Setting up for online learning as a student With schools closing for COVID-19, it's time to start doing remote learning for piano lessons. This post is intended to provide basic setup instructions for my students, but I hope it can be helpful to other teachers' students as well. I have three levels of complexity: level 1 (what you can do with...

contemporary classical composer

Anna Meredith: Tiny Desk Concert Out of nearly 700 performances at the Tiny Desk over the past decade, this one by British composer Anna Meredith is one of the most exhilarating.

I loved presenting this morning about the Music Moves for Piano Teachers workshop I attended last summer on helping students keen their musical perception via tools for facilitating them to experience rhythms and tones in patterns. Like reading a word versus "W-O-R-D."

Our scholarship recipients David Barach and Mary Ziegler Roberts gave wonderful presentations today. We had a record snowstorm turnout of 18 members at today’s meeting! Nothing stops these piano teachers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR1__k-BxhY

Ella Fitzgerald How High The Moon (Live in Berlin 1960) The notorious rendition of 'How High The Moon' off Ella's Mack The Knife (Live in Berlin) Album. I couldn't find this on youtube so I thought I'd better uplo...

Free Greg Zelek organ concert Tuesday night

Madison Symphony organist to give free recital Madison Symphony Orchestra's new organist Greg Zelek will give a free recital with after show meet and greet on Nov. 14 at 7 p.m.